Salt pork

Salt pork is salt-curedpork. It is usually prepared from pork belly, or, more rarely, fatback.[1][2] Salt pork typically resembles uncut slab bacon, but is fattier, being made from the lowest part of the belly, saltier, as the cure is stronger and performed for longer, and never smoked.

Salt pork that contains a significant amount of meat, resembling standard side bacon, is known as "streak o' lean".[4] It is traditionally popular in the Southeastern United States. As a stand-alone food product, it is typically boiled to remove much of the salt content and to partially cook the product, then fried until it starts to develop a crisp exterior. It may be eaten as one would eat bacon, or used to season other dishes like traditional salt pork.